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Israelis are skeptical about improved US relations with Iran. Also, we hear about Iran's only Jewish member of parliament, part of the Iranian delegation in New York. And we consider the attack at Nairobi's Westgate mall and what malls in general mean to different cultures.

Wednesday on The World: Israelis are skeptical about improved US relations with Iran. Also, we hear about Iran's only Jewish member of parliament, part of the Iranian delegation in New York. And we consider the attack at Nairobi's Westgate mall and what malls in general mean to different cultures.

Iran reserves one seat in its parliament for a representative of its Jewish minority. And Iran's only Jewish lawmaker has travelled to New York this week with the country's president, Hassan Rouhani. Anchor Marco Werman talks with reporter Saeed Kamali Dehghan. He covers Iran for The Guardian.

New York City attracts people from more ethnic backgrounds than nearly any other place on the planet. But some groups dominate and, among Latinos, people with roots in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic have long dominated. But an influx of immigrants from Mexico, Central, and South America is changing that.

The US may be #1 in some areas, but it's topped in at least one by tiny Belgium. Belgium may hold the record, at least for developed countries, for days without a government - at 589 days. And, that seems to work pretty well... for Belgians.